{"nrhp_refnum":"79003316","name":"Kittiewan","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2.5 mi. SE of New Hope","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Hope","county":"Charles City County","state":"VA","lat":37.303662172500054,"lon":-77.04753831253994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-18th-century story-and-a-half frame plantation house on a farm tract above Kittewan Creek near its meeting with the James River, in Charles City County, Virginia, built during the tenure of David Minge.","why_significant":"The nomination points to the house's finely crafted interior paneling, which it says would be noteworthy even in a much larger house, and to the late 18th-century mantels with provincial vigor. It also notes the property's long Minge-Harrison ownership and the likely archaeological remains of outbuildings that could reveal colonial plantation life.","narrative":"Kittiewan is a Tidewater Virginia plantation house in Charles City County, set on flat, open farmland on a peninsula north of the James River, above Kittewan Creek. The story-and-a-half, five-bay frame dwelling dates to the mid-18th century and was probably built while David Minge held the land, before his death in 1779. It rests on an English-bond foundation, has beaded weatherboards and pedimented dormers, and began as a single-pile, central-passage house with an ell. Later additions, including a post-1846 renovation under Dr. William A. Selden, changed its plan and added porches. Inside, the southeast parlor is fully paneled, with a dentil cornice, fluted Roman Doric pilasters and a late 18th-century mantel. The nomination values this woodwork highly. It also stresses that archaeological remains of vanished outbuildings and the terraced bank to the creek could add to knowledge of colonial plantation life. Minge-Harrison family ownership lasted until 1846.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and used as a private residence and agriculture; no early outbuildings survive, though archaeological remains are likely.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.861522-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/6799/41679994/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003316.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003316/7c40137770-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003316/7c40137770-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jscott","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kittiewan_Plantation_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jscott</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kittiewan_Plantation_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679994","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittiewan","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712677"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charles-city-county/kittiewan-79003316/"}